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Cyberpunk Is Alive, Evolving, and More Relevant Than Ever
There’s a long-standing tradition in the arts, whether it’s literature, film, music, or all pop culture in general: every once in a while, someone comes along and proclaims a genre irrevocably dead. The jury’s been out on cyberpunk for decades.
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The Peripheral Finale Was Too Confusing to Be Satisfying
The Peripheral — Prime Video’s William Gibson adaptation from the producers of Westworld — explored some intriguing ideas in its tale of a young woman whose virtual-reality adventuring vaults her into a broken version of the future. But today’s season finale felt like a scramble to the finish; there was too much going on in…
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The Peripheral Aims to Fill the High-Concept Sci-Fi Void Westworld Left Behind
Ten years from now, a young woman in the rural South turns to a lucrative side hustle to pay for her mother’s medical treatment: playing virtual reality games to help rich clients level up. But as we see in The Peripheral, her latest gig is far more than a game, and the world it opens…
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The Crow Reboot Inches Steadily Closer to Actually Happening
Halloween Ends merch teases a grim new look for Michael Myers’ iconic mask. Handmaid’s Tale will return for a sixth and final season. Solar Opposites is getting a Halloween special. Plus, what’s coming on Resident Alien, and a new look at Amazon’s take on William Gibson’s The Peripheral. To me, my spoilers!